Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 54
“Reassure yourself, my dear, the King took my words in a very good spirit and he has never yet made light of my advice.”
Who acts: you, King, my · What happens: reassure, take, not make, word, light · To what, where: yourself, words, good spirit, light, advice
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reassure | punct |
| 2 | Reassure | reassure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Reassure | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dear | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Reassure | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dear | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spirit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spirit | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spirit | amod |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 made | advmod |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 took | conj |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 advice | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 advice | nmod:poss |
| 27 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 light | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reassure | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reassure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassure in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | the King | my words | a good spirit | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent word=Value in spirit=Location | |||
| 3 | not make in a quote | present · perfect | King | light of my advice | yet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product | |||
| 4 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | light in a quote | my advice | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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